Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc2439d2794b2c56…

MALICIOUS

PDF

56.5 KB Created: 2020-08-10 23:38:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7)
MD5: f79ace12863c69e145d4ecc620eda3cb SHA-1: e6cbb167da4a4b9887e2a964e182882d51f70989 SHA-256: bc2439d2794b2c56989457ada15f2cdb31b8f20a7db370b5a5f0715d90ab18a0
152 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF was flagged by a machine learning classifier and contains a critical heuristic indicating it links to known malicious redirector infrastructure. It also exhibits characteristics of a PDF link farm, with numerous embedded URLs pointing to various domains, including shopify.com and other file-hosting sites. The primary malicious URL identified is https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=algebra+maths+questions+pdf, which is likely used to redirect users to a malicious destination. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 4

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.com/pify?keyword=algebra+maths+questions+pdf
    • http://files.camellanorth.com/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874567/zusenew.pdf
    • http://files.msvasquezclassroom.com/uploads/1/3/1/6/131606121/demejazagunixi.pdf
    • http://files.mascoutahsteakhouse.com/uploads/1/3/1/1/131164504/4326654.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/7927/9527/files/bilangan_imajiner.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0449/2728/7451/files/canula_nasal_de_alto_flujo_en_pediatria.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/7424/1187/files/wunavelewetusavexo.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/5857/7046/files/67397864677.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/6310/0070/files/3289942185.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0430/8982/1845/files/64586139903.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/9420/3806/files/wokugaximiwivajazul.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0435/6079/6318/files/bless_the_lord_o_my_soul_chords.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0439/8632/1566/files/25965558263.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0429/6186/2810/files/pefaxivirojaxa.pdf
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/35209966956.pdf
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000093d3.bin
7c82ceef045985a4fc65d2643b8acf72e7e58e4dba084b7b3255035aedcefa5f
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x93D3 5712 bytes
font_01_sfnt_off0000a70c.bin
e791d0179692b7e26b6f908ece4e46a3d6d04b0ca11755bf076ac125c2b421b0
pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xA70C 14616 bytes